Edgar Summary

Edgar feels a quick pain in his neck but believes it to be something that has fallen from overhead. He needed to clear the smoke from the room, so he forces a pitchfork up to the roof of the workshop to open up a hatch. Edgar then falls to the ground. Between the poison and the smoke, Edgar either hallucinates or has a Heavenly vision, and sees Almondine, who urges him to get out. But Edgar cannot get out.

Edgar Analysis

As Edgar begins to succumb to the poison, Claude continues watching him, waiting for Edgar to die. In a bittersweet moment, Edgar sees Almondine's ghost coming to meet him.